Since last Sunday's effort was a clear success, I will be reviewing more cookbooks in future. But not this week.
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Things are going pretty smoothly both at home and at work, with one exception. And, as a result of that one exception, I have an emergency dental appointment on Monday.
Another tooth broke. I wasn't even eating anything. I was walking down the hallway on my way back to my office from doing an errand on campus, and running my tongue along a rough spot on one molar. All of a sudden, there was a hole instead of a rough spot.
It doesn't hurt, which helps a lot, and it turns out the office I have to go to in Beaverton is only a few blocks off the route I usually take when I have business in Beaverton. I have warned everybody who needs to know that I won't be in till the afternoon on Monday, and the co-pay (this sort of thing being one of the few things that my dental insurance requires a co-pay for) is no problem.
I babysat my grandson the other evening when he was returned home due to pitching a screaming fit in the grocery store. When he came back downstairs and realized his mother was gone, he started another one. I told him to stop screaming because, while his mother couldn't spank him at the store, we weren't at the store and I could spank him. He didn't stop, so I popped him one on the diaper - he very promptly stopped screeching, though he did continue to cry.
He flatly refused to admit to being tired, but it was obvious from his eyes that he was.
He wanted to go to the store, and I told him that wasn't possible, but if he would stop crying, we could go outside. So he did stop crying, and we went outside. Then he wanted to walk - and he started crying again as soon as he realized we weren't going any farther than around the block. That got him immediately taken back home, and not long after that, I finally figured out which game he was telling me he wanted. My daughter and hers got home just about the time I was ready to tear my hair out - because as soon as I got the game set up, he decided he didn't want it.
Yeah, tired.
The local restaurant that I like going to for breakfast has added some savory German pancakes to their offerings. The one I had Saturday morning was really good. And, while I was having breakfast, a young couple with a toddler came in. As it happens, the couple in question met in the lab where I work, and arranged things so that my boss could officiate at their wedding. Their little girl is about my grandson's age, and going through a shy stage - and they never have managed to bring her to the lab to show her off, so she had no idea why this weird stranger was hugging Mommy and Daddy.
I did my grocery shopping after that and as soon as I got them put away, went to invite the offspring to breakfast with me - we settled on next Saturday. And, as I was leaving, my grandson thanked me for talking to them. It's nice to feel appreciated.